 | The Best of Aaron Neville - The Christmas Collection: 20th Century Masters by Aaron Neville
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.99 Beautiful bizarre voice,an otherworldly instrument! Single best recording is a dynOmite version of Leonard Cohen's 'Bird on a Wire' from import Best of the Neville Brothers. Add 'For the Good Times'(Kristofferson), La Vie Dansante,Angola Bound, Bid You Goodnight, Crying in the Chapel, Grand Tour etc.Best here: Louisiana Xmas Day, O Holy Night, Please Come Home For Xmas.
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 | Love Songs by Julio Iglesias
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $6.12 Huge international star. Wish he did more in English. Selfish, selfish......
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 | The Best of Michael Martin Murphey by Michael Martin Murphey
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $1.82 Ridiculous choices. Instead, collect: Gonna Miss You Girl, Carolina in the Pines, Vanishing Breed, Running Blood, Wrong Man, Never Give Up , Land of Enchantment, Lost River(Dirt Band album),
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![Johnny Rivers Anthology, 1964-1977 [2-CD Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QXRNV6MSL._SL75_.jpg) | Johnny Rivers Anthology, 1964-1977 [2-CD Set] by Johnny Rivers
Buy used from: $49.94 I've developed an expanded appreciation of this Southern rocker lately. He had a knack for matching good songs with his style, which evolved somewhat during his career.
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 | My Country/That Old Feeling by Brook Benton
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $12.50 Several good songs here. Add his 'Greatest Hits' B0000002DW4 to get Rainy Night in Georgia, Don't It Make You Wanna Go Home , and My Way.
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 | Roy Rogers Tribute by Various Artists
Buy used from: $34.95 This is just a visual aid. I wouldn't especially recommend this tribute CD or indeed any original recording of Rogers. He was an excellent singer but the production quality and corny style of his day make most of his material barely listenable now. But if you watch his movies you'll appreciate how good a singer/performer he was.
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 | Sunshine Superman by Donovan
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $8.09 Add two more CDs. DONOVAN IN CONCERT and
FOR LITTLE ONES(and the single Jennifer
Juniper.
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 | The Essential Marty Robbins by Marty Robbins
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.72 His best are actually here, unlike many 'Best of' collections.
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 | Old Shep by Walter Brennan
Buy new: $6.98 / Used from: $2.61 Okay, laugh, but a collection without Brennan misses a joy. Just add his best single 'Old Rivers' to this and you've got all you need.
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 | Long Black Train by Josh Turner
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.18 A prediction, not fact YET. Title song is the only gem from first two CD's. Great voice. Better songs will make him huge.(Maybe he should cover already successful songs to establish himself).Title song here makes my list: Christian Music For Those Who Find It Boring.
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 | The Very Best of Rod Stewart by Rod Stewart
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.65 It's a start.
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 | Kissing Rain by Roch Voisine
Buy new: $47.99 / Used from: $3.49 A Canadian star in both English and French. This is his best CD(English). And a rarity, an album which is a pleasure from beginning to end. Everyone I play it for admires it.
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 | Billy Joel Greatest Hits: Vol. 1-2 (2CD) by Billy Joel
Buy new: $19.97 / Used from: $8.49 I'm sure you know the many hits. I especially like MY LIFE,
YOU'RE MY HOME, THESE ARE THE DAYS, JUST THE WAY YOU ARE,
UPTOWN GIRL.
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 | Fats Domino Jukebox: 20 Greatest Hits the Way You Originally Heard Them by Fats Domino
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.29 |
 | Guess Things Happen That Way by Cowboy Jack Clement
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $0.19 Included just for ONE SONG(his composition),title track sung so memorably at Johnny Cash Memorial. A few other good songs here.
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 | Fred Neil by Fred Neil
You can hear samples from THIS album on Amazon's clips from Neil's larger collection 'Echoes of My Mind'. But I'm not sure I'd recommend the larger one as much as THIS album. Neil was a unique voice(backed by his 12-string guitar)popular with the college/folkie crowd in the late 60's. Wrote 'Everybody's Talkin'.
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 | Reason to Believe (The Best Of) by Tim Hardin
Buy used from: $4.94 Another from the Fred Neil era, but Hardin didn't survive it(drug overdose).At least Neil lasted until just a few years ago, though at the time of his death I hadn't heard about him in decades.
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 | 16 Most Requested Songs by Sam Cooke
Buy used from: $2.74 Several hits before he was shot and killed in a still
mysterious motel confrontation.
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 | I'm a Writer, Not a Fighter by Gilbert O'Sullivan
Buy used from: $59.11 A 'guilty pleasure'??. No, I've no shame in recommending this CD. His 2nd best is BACK TO FRONT. Add his hit single ALONE AGAIN. Maybe doesn't really qualify as major vocalist, but fun clever songwriter with creative arrangements and production.
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 | The Ultimate Hits Collection by Johnny Mathis
I think this has most of his major hits. My favorites weren't singles: I'm Coming Home, and 99 Miles from L.A.
Missing here is the fine duet 'The Last Time I Felt Like This'.
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 | The Best of Frank Ifield by Frank Ifield
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.97 The yodelling Australian crooner.
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![Whispering Rain [IMPORT]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VQ09NN1WL._SL75_.jpg) | Whispering Rain [IMPORT] by Murray McLauchlan
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $12.05 This is his best album.
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 | Charles Aznavour - Greatest Golden Hits by Charles Aznavour
Buy new: $11.94 / Used from: $4.75 My favorites? YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG,
HOW SAD VENICE CAN BE, and SHE.
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 | Reloaded: Greatest Hits by Tom Jones
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.47 |
 | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Burl Ives by Burl Ives
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.89 Made his rep with Christmas, kids' songs and old-fashioned folk tunes. His warm voice is extended to other good songs occasionally, but you have to search for them.
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